Liquid measuring and discharging device



I. P. FABER.

LIQUID MEASURING AND QISCHARGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.I0, I918.

1,323,234. Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. FA'BER, OF DUNELLEN BOROUGH, NEW J'IIBRSEY, ASSIGNOR TO RANSOME CONCRETE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LIQUID MEASURING 4ND DISCHARGING- DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Pafl enfeti Nov. 25, 1919.

Application filed August 10, 1918. Serial No. 249,221.

regulating and controlling the discharge of liquid from a reservoir, and are primarily designed for use in connection with tanks or reservoirs containing water and designed to supply water to a concrete mixing machine.

In machines of this character the amount of water used in the mixing of a batch of.

concrete depends upon various conditions and is varied according to these conditions. Thus for some work a relatively large quantity of water is used with a given quantity of the dry aggregates, while for other work a relatively small quantity is used, producing what is commonly called a dry mixture. The nature of the dry aggregates, and the particular quantity used in a given batch also require variations in the amount of water used in each batch.

Heretofore various devices have been used. for measuring the quantity of water to be supplied to the concrete batch, and these devices have proved satisfactory within certain limits. A common arrangement, and one that has been used for many years, with.

minormodifications, is the rubber hose outlet tube construction, in which a rubber hose secured at one end of a horizontal tank and extending to a point ator near the other end is provided with an arm for raising and lowering its free end, and thus determining the extent to. which water in the tank can be discharged therethrough. This arrangement has been found unsatisfactory in some particulars, and it ordinarily neces sitates the placing of the valve controlling the inlet and outlet of water at one end of I the tank and the adjusting 'andmeasuring means at the other end.- It also therefore involves two separate devices for these purposes. To have; the measuring device op,-

erated from the discharge end of the tank would entail a connection or mechanisnrof some kind extending to the other end, which would be unsatisfactory for obvious reasons.

The use of a three-way valve for, the inlet and outlet also has objections, in addition to the apparent one that it in effect reduces the cross 'sectionaL area of the pipe, and therefore interferes with the flow of Water to a certain extent. There are other objections and disadvantages which need not be mentioned.

l/Vith the present improvements the means for controlling the flow and measuring the quantity of water may be combined in a unitary structure, of'relatively simple form and very eflicient and dependable action, so

that the operation. of filling the tank, meas-- suring the volume of water to be discharged there cident to the use of the tank may be controlled at a single point, and theother ob- ,jections and disadvantages of the old construction overcome.

It is to overcome the objectionable features of the former construction and arrangement and secure these advantages that the present improvement are designed.

The improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical medial section of a device em- 7 bodying the improvements, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the same.

The liquid tank or reservoir 1 has a cenrom and all the other operations in-' tral discharge opening 2 in its head 3, into which is threaded the neck 4 of the valve casing 5, and in this neck is fitted the outer end6of the curved discharge conduit 7, in such ;a manner that it may rotate therein. An annular flange 8 prevents the discharge conduit from moving outward.

A .means for turning the swiveled discharge regulating conduit 7 is provided in the rod 9, secured by the pin 10 and extendmg through the valve. On the opposlte end of this rod an operating handle 11 1s ed, and a disk 12 adapted to bear dialmarkings in front of which the handle .swm is secured to the valve casing and enab es the operator to measure themovement of the rod and the position of the intake end of the discharge conduit. The

- arrangement is such that when the operating handle 11 is in its extreme position on the left the intake is also in itsuppermost position, and as the'handle is moved from that position to the right and over the serrahollow. valve plug'13, by which the said plug may be moved to positions in which its port 16 establishes communication with the discharge orifice 17 or the water supply inlet 18 (dotted lines Fig. 1) of the valve casing 5. The plug is seated within the casing 5,. and tapers toward the tank connection, being constantly pressed in this direction by the compresslon spring 19 on its shank and between the body of the plug and the removable head 20 of the casing, which provides a bearing jor the plug and has a stufiing 21 to prevent leakage.

It will be seen that the rod 9 passes through the valve plug and its hollow shank 14 in a straight line and has a bearing in the end of the said tubular shank, in which a stufling 22 is provided to prevent leakage around the. rod. The operatingflhandle 11 is provided with means for-holding it in any desired position and preventing accidental movement thereofas when the valve operating handle 15 is moved-f-in a spring projection 23 en aging the serrations 24' in the face of the dial. This spring projection may be of any ordinary form suitable for the purpose, and may be's'ecured to the bane dle 11 in any desired manner. 'A toothed annulus 25 is also fixed to the casing adjacent to the handle 15, and may be engaged V by any suitable device carried by the handle the handle 11 accordingly,

for the purpose of retaining the handle indifferent positions. The handle is also provided with an aperture 26 at its outer-end which may lie-engaged by a cord or rod so that it can be 0 erated from a distance.

Inoperation' t e valve is normally in communicatlon WIth-the water supply pipe, and

the tank therefore normally full, the water entering and "filling after each draft. Theoperator determines' it to capacity opening the discharge orifice it is only necessary to move the valve handle so as to bring'the port 16 opposite the imperforate portion of the valve casing. 5

What I claim is: V 1. The combinationwith a tank, of a rigid discharge conduit movably mounted therein, and a liquid supply conduit and liquid discharge. conduit connected therewith and leading to points exterior to the tank, and a valve between said first discharge conduit and the other conduits and in communica. tion constantly with the-first conduit and alternately with the said other conduits, means for moving the'valve to positions in which it communicates alternately as stated, means extending through said valve and to the exterior of the tank for moving said first conduit to difi'erent positions with respect to the tank, and means f measuring the extent of said movement and he resulting discharge of liquid therethrough.

2. The combination with a tank, of a discharge conduit movably mounted therein, and a liquid discharge conduitcommunicating therewith and leading to a point ex-' terior to the tank, and a valve between said first discharge conduit and the other condult and in communication constantly with the first conduit and intermittently with the said other conduit, means for moving the valve, and means for moving a portion of duit and in' communication-constantly. with the first conduit and intermittently with the said other conduit, and means formoving the valve, and means for moving sald first conduit to different positions with respect to the tank, and means for measuring the extent of said movement and the resulting discharge of liquid therethrough.

- 4.-The combination of a tank having an opening, a casing secured to said opening bya water-tight connection, a rotatable discharge conduit mounted in said casing and the volume of water to be drawn and moveg extending into the tank, said casing having I inlet and outlet ports, a valve device movand then by mov ing the handle 15.-down causes -the desired uantity of-water to be discharged through t e valve-to themixer. The handle 15 is then restoredto its original position and the discharge orifice closed and the tank connected with the water supply again.

operation may berepeated as often as desired with .or without read ustment of the measuring device, according to the requirements of the mixing work. When it is desired to shutofl the water supply without charge conduit movably mounted therein,- and a. liquid supply-.eonduitand liquid charge conduit connected therewith and leading to points exterior to the tank, and a valve. between said first discharge conduit and the other conduits and in communication with the first conduit and alternately with the said other conduits, means for moving the valve to positions in which it communicates alternately as stated, means extending to the exterior of the tank for moving said first conduit to difl'erent positions 10 with respect to the tank, and means for measuring the extent of said movement and v the resulting discharge of liquid there through.

Witness my hand this 24th dayof July, 15 1918, at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York.

' JOHN P. FABER. 

